From @qwasistellar.bsky.social: Artemis, AI, Astronomy, and our place in it. The author asks why do astrophysics at all. To produce results faster, or to turn graduate students into inefficient stand-ins for software? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
astrobites.org/2026/04/10/tell-me-why-a-case-for-humane-astrophysics/
Aw! Likewise, excited to join you!!! 🙂
We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗
My advisor, Karin Öberg, says you’re ready to graduate once you start dressing like your advisor. It’s therefore fitting that yesterday we matched (unplanned) during my dissertation talk :)
Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!
Almost 14 years ago, I started developing a Monte Carlo code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is now publicly available! 🚀 This was possible thanks to the hard work of @turbulenthuman.bsky.social and @nereagurru.bsky.social 🙌
thank u Huei and astrobites 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
🩵 I’m so glad you get meaning from it. I also have to look back on it and confront these feelings daily 🥲
visiting this piece by @suchitra.bsky.social today as I'm having trouble focusing on my astronomy work in light of... all that's going on
🧪🔭☄️👩🔬 #womeninSTEM
A Slack screenshot of me (Huei Sears) posting a congratulations announcement to Dr. Suchi Narayanan. There are at least 18 different Slack emoji reacts selected with at least 5 people having clicked each.
reason # 1,000,000 why i love @astrobites.bsky.social sm: whenever one of passes our PhD defense we post in #random a congrats and shower them with fun emojis. I think it speaks the strong community and care of each other in the collaboration. ❤️
p.s. congrats to Dr. @suchitra.bsky.social !!! : )
SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!
I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science.
h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
I was reminded of an outreach thing the Rosetta team did:
They hired a perfumer to recreate the "smell of a comet" - www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m....
It was distinctive.
Omg this is really neat, thanks for sharing!
Today on the #arXiv:
Narayanan et al. 2025, "Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices" - arxiv.org/abs/2504.01102
If you were wondering what a protoplanetary disc might be said to smell like.
Haha, this made me laugh! Thankfully i don't have to smell my reactants :)
Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01102
Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan.
Aw thanks for thinking of me Mark! And happy to chat Kate! :)
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
#AAS245 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 245th AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD. It was a GREAT week of science & we couldn't have done it without you. See you in Anchorage for #AAS246 (call for proposals opens soon!). #ExploreAstronomy ✨
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go see Suchi today !! 🔭
Hi #AAS245! I'll be giving my dissertation talk today, Mon, 1/13, 3:10pm (142.07D) in Maryland Ballroom D! :) I'm excited to share that my work received the AAS Doxsey Prize.
Also thank you to #ExoPAG31 for the opportunity to give an early career research talk yesterday!
Great presentations, engaging discussions, and valuable community inputs at the ExoPAG 31 meeting! A big thank you to everyone who joined and contributed 📸👏
@suchitra.bsky.social's dissertation talk: Understanding organosulfur chemistry in star- and planet-forming regions using experiments, observations, and theory on Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:10–3:30 PM in Maryland Ballroom D
so neat!! can't wait to see your results :)
I wanted to be abundantly clear re: my values and hope that this platform can be what Twitter once was. I care about Earth and its people/species, first and foremost. 💙 If you care about similar things (incl. space/chemistry/origins of life!) please follow along :)
~now, back to post-doc apps.
As I wrote, "As astronomers, we reckon with the fragility, beauty, and utter chance of our existence on a daily basis. All of the groundbreaking research we are privileged to do and are surrounded by does not matter unless we have a planet to live on."
Beyond just astrochemistry, I am passionate about using our understanding of other planets to better understand our own (and advocate for) Earth. A few years ago, I published an article in @astrobites.bsky.social on astrophysics and eco-anxiety (astrobites.org/2021/06/04/a...).
Hi! I just wanted to introduce myself on here officially. I am Suchi(tra) Narayanan, a fifth (& final)-year #astrophysics PhD candidate/NSF Fellow studying the chemistry of planet formation using experiments, observations, and theory to reconcile what is known as the missing sulfur problem.